Class in Session
July 08, 2005
If our major broadsheets seem to reflect a disproportionately affluent America, it may be because reporters and editors resemble their readership - a well-heeled demographic favored by newspaper advertisers. It's not surprising that these papers rarely take on the issue of class divisions. But over the past nine months, the L.A. Times, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have done exactly that. Brooke analyzes the papers' series on class with journalist and author Barbara Ehrenreich.
